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9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." let's go to the ukraine. the prime minister says ukraine is, quote, on the brink disaster. he calls the russian military bases a declaration of war and blames president vladimir putin for bringing the nation to those point. the president expressing deep concerns over russia's violation ukrainian sovereignty and the international law. putin defended what he called russia's rights to protect its tests. today on "meet the press," secretary of state john kerry cave his take on putin's actions. >> there are plenty of ways to protec...

Samantha morton originally cast in the movie and they shot the whole movie and spike jones decided it wasn't working and he brought in scarlet johanssen. she really brings that character to life, so to speak. and joaquin phoenix is fantastic too, very subtle work, very understated. but the whole movie is it takes a fairly comic premise. and it takes it in some very thoughtful and touching directions. i think asks some interesting questions about the nature of love. >> okay. well, it's been a great conversation. christopher orr of the atlantic, thanks so much. we'll do it again. >> i'd love to....

A slave," one of several powerful films that made at least one top ten list this year and probe more. there are so many great movies. christopher orr calls 2013 no less than a tremendous year for film. christopher joins meese now to discuss his top five frustrates and more. welcome. >> thank you for having me. it's a pleasure to be here. >> i'm glad to you. it's always fun to talk about means. what is it do you think that made 2013 such a great year for film. >> there were a lot of good movies. it was a real year of sort of mid budget movies that came in well. there were a lot of movies in tha...

0 still going to slow things down for travelers. >> thank you so much from the weather channel. alex is, appreciate it. developing story of the russian ship stranded in sea ice off of antarctica there since christmas eve. a first attempt by a chinese ice breaker had to turn back. joining me now martin fletcher from london. any progress being made there? >> well, very little. it's midnight local time in the east in antarctica. that chinese ice breaker you mentioned which got to the within six nautical miles of the trapped ship it got stuck itself. there's ice about ten feet thick and the ice ...

That's from the movie "love actually." we are asking a very important question this morning. is it a christmas classic? with some movies, it's ovs. miracle on 34th street. >> christmas story. >> a christmas story. people are up in arms about this. one critic, christopher orr, at the atlantic, had this to say about the movie. >> i think "love actually" is not mere ly not a love movie bu an anti-love movie, first and last scenes of a variety of scenes without the middle part where people actually fall in love. >> where are you on the debate? >> my absolute favorite movie of all time. >> what? >>...